A prolific criminal who changed her ways and got off drugs found herself back in court after her boyfriend coerced her into stealing a television from Tesco.

Danielle Nuttell, 33, was caught after she wheeled the £250 set out of the Boston supermarket in a trolley on the orders of her then partner.

Nuttell turned her life around after being sentenced to 12 months' prison in 2017 for burglary.

But she got back with her boyfriend after she was released from prison in April last year and started using the synthetic cannabis Spice, and went on to steal the telly from Tesco on October 16, 2018.

A selection of the "Spice" legal stimulants is pictured (Image: AFP/Getty Images)

Marie Stace, prosecuting at Lincoln Magistrates' Court, said: "Miss Nuttell entered the store at 3.50pm and placed a television in a trolley and left making no attempt to pay, having removed the security tag."

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Justin Atkinson, in mitigation, said: "She has 13 pages of previous convictions by my reckoning and all relate to a period of time when she was in a relationship with her partner.

"They were both drug users and he was violent towards her. She would often have to commit offences and steal things to sell."

Mr Atkinson added: "When she was sent to prison in 2017 she made a conscious effort to improve her lot.

"She decided to get herself free of drugs and she was largely successful.

"She was released from prison on April 10, 2018 and the supermarket theft is her only offence since then.

"Unfortunately, this coincided with with a period of time when she did resume a relationship with this man and she started using Spice and in Tesco on this day he forced her to carry this TV out of the store.

"She was temporarily in possession of the TV when she walked out of the shop but she never saw it again.

"When the man returned the following day she was not given a share of the sale."

The court heard that Nuttell has this week begun working "for the first time in a long time " on the land.